I work in sourcing and trade.
And bring AI into the everyday work.
Finding suppliers. Comparing quotes. Preparing proposals. Checking drawings. This is my open studio with LouLou, my AI collaborator—real practice, explained and shared.
I care less about adding another AI tool than making the next RFQ, proposal or handoff clearer.
Product & sourcing projects
From understanding client briefs and researching products to finding suppliers, organizing RFQs, aligning quote conditions and preparing client presentations. AI helps across the workflow, with sources and human decisions kept in view.
Products, drawings & delivery coordination
For court-related products and engineered materials, I work on factory coordination, drawing and specification checks, production and packing information, shipping documents and change handoffs. AI helps surface differences; people still approve decisions.
These are my personal working practices, not official statements from either company.
Whatever AI tool I use, I tend to call it LouLou. I bring business context and make the decisions; LouLou helps research, organize, compare and move the work forward.
Louis and LouLou, together in one name.
I built this site to keep the useful parts from disappearing into a chat. So someone else in sourcing does not have to start from the same question again.
More than a finished image: the starting point, the turning points, the artifacts and the methods you can reuse.
Concept art · Not actual productsBrief analysis / Candidate comparison / Presentations
More AI answers do not automatically make a better shortlist. I separated duplicate recommendations, product conditions and source links so every inclusion and rejection could be revisited.
Open the full case
Concept art · Not actual productsReference research / Sample records / Version checks
A reference price is not a supplier quote; a sample purchase is not a shipment. Images, colors, price sources and versions need to tell the same story before the proposal moves forward.
Open the full caseClient and supplier identities are withheld. These cases cover research, proposals and sample records—not approval, orders or shipments.
A small exercise: a store says it offers customization. Can you claim that for this exact product in a sourcing proposal?
It does not yet connect that capability to this pouch. Keep the source, but do not turn a general service statement into a product specification.
A preset teaching example. No AI call and no data upload.
A small distinction that keeps “looks right” from becoming “confirmed.”
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Concept illustrationA supplier database is more than a list. A knowledge system is more than a file folder. What matters is which entity offers which product, what a quote includes and why the last decision was made.
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I’d love to hear about the work, the questions, and the things you only learn by trying.